About Simone
Simone Fernandes Rezzadori Bortolato is an ACA counsellor with 15 years' experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and low self‑esteem. She offers straightforward support for life changes, relationship tensions and mood concerns. Simone creates a calm, respectful space so people can talk honestly about what matters to them.
She uses an integrative, person‑centred approach that blends evidence‑based techniques with practical conversation. Sessions focus on everyday steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Simone adapts her style to each person’s culture, values and goals because lived experience shapes how problems show up. Her background includes work in both Australia and Brazil, which informs her sensitivity to cultural and family influences. That experience also helped her refine tools for motivation, coping and rebuilding confidence after setbacks.
Simone pays attention to patterns such as attachment and codependency so clients can spot repeating cycles. People come to her for help with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and midlife or life‑purpose questions. She also supports those dealing with fertility or immigration stress, isolation, guilt and shame, and issues with control or impulsivity.
Conversations are direct but warm, aimed at clearer thinking and better day‑to‑day coping. Simone tailors plans to each person rather than following a fixed script. She works with practical skills, reflections about patterns, and gradual steps that fit the client’s life.
The aim is steady progress towards the goals the client values most.
How evidence‑based approaches meet online care
Simone draws on evidence‑based techniques to help people manage anxiety and improve daily functioning. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small, practical experiments to reduce worry and avoidance. Behavioural techniques emphasise gradual practice of activities that build confidence and mood, such as paced exposure to feared situations or routine activity planning.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process. Simone works collaboratively to choose approaches that match the client’s goals, values and life situation. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans so the work feels useful and doable rather than overwhelming.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation when reviewing thoughts and practising new skills. Phone sessions can be a lower‑bandwidth option or easier for quick check‑ins. Live chat and text‑based messaging are useful for short reflections, goal tracking and support between sessions. This flexibility helps fit therapy into busy lives and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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